Posted on 04/03/2012 8:18:34 AM PDT by raccoonradio
On the road again, the President’s Uncle. One week after Oyango Obama lost his license as part of a plea deal for a drunken driving charge the Boston Herald is reporting received a limited license yesterday. The Registry of Motor Vehicles ruled that Obama would suffer undue hardship without the right to drive. He is allowed to drive from noon to midnight, and entered an alcohol treatment program. The President’s Uncle is also in the country illegally and has an immigration hearing next month.
more from the Boston Herald. Howie list ping. For all we know Uncle Omar might live a block away, but he still gets to drive
Just a week after he copped a plea in a drunken-driving rap, President Obama’s illegal-alien uncle has landed a hardship driver’s license from the Registry of Motor Vehicles, making it perfectly legal for him to drive in Massachusetts — even though the feds say he doesn’t belong here.
Onyango Obama, 67, who lost his regular license for 45 days last week, scored his limited license yesterday from the Registry’s Wilmington branch, after convincing a hearing officer that life without wheels would have posed an undue hardship on his livelihood as a liquor-store manager. Obama bolstered his case with a letter from his employer, Conti Liquors, as well as proof that he’d enrolled in an alcohol-treatment program.
“He met all of the criteria,” RMV spokeswoman Sara Lavoie said.
Of the state’s decision to award Obama a license even though the federal government considers him an illegal alien, Lavoie would only say, “Registry business is based on Registry records.”
The license allows Obama to drive from noon to midnight.
The license award drew fire from one advocate of tough enforcement on illegals, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson.
“Our democracy is predicated on law,” Hodgson said. “When we start to interpret these laws differently and manipulate them the way we want them to work for certain people, we start to send a mixed message to people that the law doesn’t really matter. Its subject to interpretation. You don’t have to follow the law. They find ways to justify it. We need the laws to be very clear. We need ‘no’ to mean ‘no’ again.”
Hodgson, along with sheriffs in Plymouth and Worcester counties, stood up for Secure Communities, a program that feeds local police fingerprint checks into federal databases to check the citizenship status of accused criminals. Gov. Deval Patrick has refused to enroll the state in the program.
Obama, a Kenyan national, lost his license last week after admitting in court that Framingham cops had sufficient evidence to convict him in an August OUI bust. His lawyer, P. Scott Bratton, said Obama has an immigration hearing next month.
A judge continued Obama’s OUI case without a finding for one year, meaning he’ll face no further punishment if he stays out of trouble. Obama is the half-brother of President Obama’s late father, and the older brother of Zeituni Onyango, who was granted asylum in 2010.
Since when has the lack of a license stopped and illegal alien from driving?
“He is allowed to drive from noon to midnight”
He shouldn’t be driving at all. But Why midnight? Why not 7pm?
How nice to see that Uncle Omar gets such beneficial treatment. Maybe he threatened to tell his nephew if they treated him badly. Maybe he is being handled with kid gloves because of who he is and who his nephew is.
Yes—and notice the comment from a sheriff, above, about how laws can be manipulated to help people who have connections. Ted Kennedy once asked, “Are there two systems of law in this country, one for most of the people and one for the high and mighty?” or words to that effect. (My answer to Ted: Yes,
and that was applied to YOU with Chappaquiddick...)
>>a liquor-store manager
He’s a MANAGER? Yikes. Thought he just stocked shelves
or something.
Yes he can.
If he’s illegal why did he have a license to begin with?
I wonder which company is insuring him, and how much that is costing.
Probably Progressive.
No surprise at all from our communists controlled government. Tow the line or get your communists King upset.
Loophole of sorts, prob. a fake social security number.
Mike Dukakis as governor had a deal where fake SSNs
were given to illegals so they could get benefits. Or did he somehow get a real SSN despite not being legal?
>>PICKET: Did president’s uncle benefit from 1980’s Dukakis fake ID policy for illegals?
August 30, 2011, 04:50AM
>>Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr brought up on his Monday’s show that Onyango Obama, President Obama’s long lost half uncle (”Uncle Omar”) who was arrested by Framingham, Massachusetts police last week, charged with DUI, and found to have a warrant out on him by immigration authorities at ICE, has a valid social security number and a Massachusetts driver’s license. Mr. Carr contacted the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles and asked a spokesman at the state motor vehicle agency how someone in Onyago Obama’s circumstances could get a driver’s license. He later told his audience what he discovered:(emphasis is mine)
— “According to the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles he has a valid driver’s license and you can’t get a valid driver’s license, supposedly, unless you have a social security number. And I asked them (RMV), ‘Well how the hell did he get a license if he never had a social security number? Maybe I’m just a little mister naive.’ But they said that they couldn’t tell me because he had the license for at least 20 years, so he had gotten it back in their pre-computer days.”
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(further down):
>> Uncle Omar might have had a visa that permitted work authorization and then simply overstayed, or he may have applied for asylum (which application, before 1995, gave you automatic work authorization) and then not left after he was turned down. The Boston Herald is reporting that the elder Mr. Obama has had his social security number for at least 19 years. Onyango Obama is currently being held by ICE authorities. Interestingly his immigration case will be handled by the same Cleveland attorney who successfully represented President Obama’s Aunt Zeituni when she was about to be deported back to Kenya.
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“Technically it is not illegal to be an illegal in Massachusetts”—State AG Martha Coakley
Doesn't need any. His relative is currently the communists black King of America.
Doesn't need any. His relative is currently the communists black King of America.
I bet they fast-tracked the process for the "hardship" license specifically because of Bambi.
So he can get to the polling place to vote.
I believe he was also in possession of a fraudulent social security card when he was arrested.
Like his famous nephew, he'll vote present. I'm sure the whole inconvenience has already been taken care of.
So many things wrong here. Why is Conti Liquors permitted to openly employ this admittedly ILLEGAL ALIEN?
Corruptachusetts, presided over by the Figurehead Tool, Deval Nebbish Patrick.
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